Nahum 2:8 BSB — MannaFest

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

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ASV

But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.

KJV

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Nahum (420)

(Verses 8, 9.) And Nineveh is like a pool of water; its waters are fleeing. Stand! Stand! But there is no one who can turn back. Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; there is no end to the treasures, the desirable vessels. LXX: And Nineveh is like a pool of water; and they who flee do not stand; there is no one who looks back. They plunder silver, they plunder gold, and there is no end to its ornaments; it is burdened with all the vessels of its desire.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water - מימי mimey, from days. Bp. Newcome translates the line thus: “And the waters of Nineveh are a pool of waters.” There may be reference here to the fact given in the preceding note, the overflowing of the river by which the city was primarily destroyed. Stand, stand - Consternation shall be at its utmost height, the people shall flee in all directions; and though quarter is offered, and they are assured of safety it they remain, yet not one looketh back.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Stand, stand, shall they cry--that is, the few patriotic citizens shall cry to their fleeing countrymen; "but none looketh back," much less stops in flight, so panic-stricken are they.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְנִינְוֵ֥ה	ve.ni.ne.Veh	and Nineveh	H5210 →
כִבְרֵֽכַת־	khiv.re.khat-	[was] like a pool of	H1295 →
מַ֖יִם	Ma.yim	water	H4325 →
מִ֣ימֵי	Mi.mei	from [the] days of	H3117 →
הִ֑יא	Hi'	it	H1931 →
וְהֵ֣מָּה	ve.He.mah	and they	H1992 →
נָסִ֔ים	na.Sim	[are] fleeing	H5127 →
עִמְד֥וּ	'im.Du	stop	H5975 →
עֲמֹ֖דוּ	'a.Mo.du	stop	H5975 →
וְאֵ֥ין	ve.'Ein	and there not	H369 →
מַפְנֶֽה׃	maf.Neh	[is one who] turns back	H6437 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5210veninevehand Nineveh17×

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 17:1
Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:13
  You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 19:2
  For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her…
- Revelation 17:1–17
  Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
- Revelation 16:19
  The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His…
- Revelation 21:9
  Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Through
Jeremiah 51:30
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
leads to
- Nahum 3:13
  Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
- Jeremiah 50:36–37
  A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.
Through
Revelation 17:15
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
leads to
- Revelation 17:1
  Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

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